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Conflict, food insecurity, and globalization

The researchers explore how globalization, broadly conceived to include international human rights norms, humanitarianism, and alternative trade, might influence peaceful and food secure outlooks and outcomes.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2006
Ellen Messer, Marc. J. Cohen
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Conflicts, Food Security, Globalisation, Trade, Exports, War, Human Rights, Poverty, Food Prices
Environment

Environmental sustainability: a consumption approach

With globalization fast becoming an irreversible process, it is necessary to pay increased attention to the implications for environmental sustainability. However, the so-called environmental Kuznets curve argument implies that rapid economic growth in many developing countries should be environmentally unsustainable. Environmental Sustainability addresses this dichotomy and articulates a notion of consumption sustainability that is both universal and pertains to the indefinite future.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2005
Raghbendra Jha, K. V. Bhanu Murthy
Routledge
Tags:
Environment, Environment Economics, Economic Development, Global, Sustainable Development, Environment Management, Globalisation, Economy
Water Resources

 A tale of two meetings

The North East Council reduced to a farce at one. Gibberish over interlinking rivers at another

Publication Date: 
14/06/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
North East, Water Resources, Development, River Linking, Globalisation
Environment

 The perils of babudom

Governance And The Sclerosis That Has Set In

Publication Date: 
14/01/2005
Sanjoy Hazarika
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Governance, CSE, Politics, India, Delhi, Globalisation
Transport

Biofuels for transport: an international perspective

Biofuels for transport, including ethanol, biodiesel, and several other liquid and gaseous fuels, have the potential to displace a substantial amount of petroleum around the world over the next few decades, and a clear trend in that direction has begun. This report looks both at recent trends and at the outlook for the future, in terms of potential biofuels production. It also

Publication Date: 
01/04/2004
International Energy Agency
Tags:
Land Use, Biodiesel, Ethanol, Biomass, Biofuel, Transport, Biomass Gasification, Globalisation
India

 Precariously employed

Women face the brunt of globalisation and trade

Publication Date: 
30/03/2004
Down to Earth
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Trade, Women, Statistics, Globalisation
Environment

 "We need to think about all of us as being citizens of the same world"

Joseph E Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics the Economics of Information. This earned him the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001. He was also chief economist at the World Bank and a cabinet member of the Clinton administration. He is the au

Publication Date: 
14/02/2004
Down to Earth
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Trade, Economic Development, Information, Governance, Personalities, Globalisation
Industry

 Another dismissal is possible

The World Social Forum WSF concluded in Mumbai. Then began the World Economic Forum in Davos. A little before these, a glitzy automobile fair in Delhi. One after the other, loud and strident

Publication Date: 
14/02/2004
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Water Resources, Water Policy, Trade, Subsidies, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Private Sector, Governance, India, Mumbai, Globalisation
Poverty

 South Asian Union: Dream reality?

A closer knit South Asian community is not beyond the realms of possibility now. At the 12th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in Islamabad from January 4 6, leaders of the region took some of the boldest steps ever since the groupin

Publication Date: 
14/02/2004
Clifford Polycarp
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Health, Energy, International Cooperation, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Education, Asia, Islamabad, India, Food Security, Globalisation
Climate Change

 The real maths of the world

Our world did change in 2003. The US war on Iraq made sure that the rules of engagement were changed, perhaps for a long time to come. The change I see most visible is that the world has become

Publication Date: 
14/01/2004
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Trade, UNEP, OECD, War, Politics, Iraq, Corruption, Globalisation

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